The family of a woman who died in a crash last fall said they’re furious about what happened during a hearing for the woman charged with causing the wreck.

Prosecutors said Deanna Holleran was using methamphetamine and marijuana last September when she ran through a red light with her eyes closed last September. Holleran’s car hit a van carrying Mariana Hernandez, a mother of six.

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The family said the last six months have been an ordeal and Thursday’s hearing wasn’t any easier.

Andrea Hernandez, the victim’s sister, said Holleran showed no remorse for what happened.

“It feels like she didn’t care,” Hernandez said through an interpreter. “She doesn’t have a heart. It was just like a game to her.”

Several times a day, Hernandez goes past her sister’s home on the way to work or dropping her sister’s children off at school. She said the trips only remind her of what’s missing in her life.

“It hurts me because we used to always go to the park and we used to always be together,” Hernandez said.

She’s helping to care for her sister’s children. She said they’re still coping with the loss.

Hernandez and the family invited KMBC 9 News to speak with them about what Holleran said and didn’t say in court.

“I’m mad because she doesn’t have any resentment, any feelings,” said the victim’s mother, Tomasa Salazar Moreno.

She said her daughter came to the United States seeking a better life and wound up dead.

“She only lasted two years here,” she said.

The family said it wants justice and hopes the judge will give Holleran a long sentence, for the sake of Mariana Hernandez’s children

The family said it’s been an emotionally draining experience. It took police several months to bring Holleran into custody. She is due back in court April 11.